Re: Negative string offset support

Exactly what I thought when reading the original post :) - Michael > why not add it with the {} operators then? > > -sterling > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:07:05 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org> > wrote: >> I am wondering what are people's opinions on adding support for negative >> string offsets that could be used to access data from the end of a >> string. >> >> Ex. $a = "123"; echo $a[-1]; // would print 3 >> >> I don't think we should do this for arrays, since -1 and similar are >> valid array keys, which means adding this support for arrays would break >> BC. >> >> Ilia >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >